Your or yours?
your is a determiner meaning “Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner)”; yours is a pronoun meaning “That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun…”. Use your as a determiner and yours as a pronoun (your is also a pronoun: “Honorific alternative letter-case form of your, sometimes…”). In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) your is about 60 times as common as yours.
What is the difference between your and yours?
| your | yours | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | determiner, pronoun | pronoun |
| Meaning | Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner) Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners) | That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun informalYour house or home |
| Example | Let’s meet tomorrow at your convenience | If this edit is mine, the other must be yours |
| Forms | yo, yo', yoh, yur | your's |
| Pronunciation | /jɔː(ɹ)/ /jʊə(ɹ)/ /jə(ɹ)/ | /jɔː(ɹ)z/ /jʊəz/ /jəz/ |
| In writing | 3,388 times per million words | 56 times per million words |
Sources: your and yours in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of your and yours
your
- 1
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner)
Let’s meet tomorrow at your convenience
- 2
Honorific alternative letter-case form of your, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context
Your Honor
- 3
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners)
- 4
A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun
Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry
- 5
IrelandThat; the specified (usually used with a human referent)
Your man just bought a new car
yours
- 1
That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun
If this edit is mine, the other must be yours
- 2
Honorific alternative letter-case form of yours, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context
- 3
informalYour house or home
Let's go over to yours
- 4
Written at the end of a letter, before the signature
Yours sincerely, Yours faithfully, Yours, Sincerely yours
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, your or yours?
your appears 3,388 times per million words; yours 56 times per million words.
your 3,388 times per million wordsyours 56 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search your vs yours?
“your vs yours” is searched about 20 times a month on Bing (Google reports it together with close variants, so it has no figure of its own) in the United States.
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.